Mich. Superintendent Still on the Job At 92 and Counting

By Alan Richard

Vandercook Lake, Mich.

If Burdette W. Andrews were a river, his waters would flow straight and sure through the village of Vandercook Lake, beside its two schoolhouses.

His presence as this southern Michigan community's chief educator has been no less certain for the past 53 years.

At 92 years of age, Mr. Andrews is almost certainly the oldest and longest-serving superintendent in the United States. That fact isn't evident in his wise but younger-looking face or his quick sense of humor, but the families who have trusted him to educate generations of children...